This month marks 78 years since Stalin's brutal deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Sunni Muslim indigenous people of Crimea. Today, as Russia pursues its savage war of conquest against Ukraine, we should understand the deportation not only as a tragedy of the past, but as an indictment of our present and a lesson for the future.

Join us for this special screening to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, where over 1 million people have been forcibly deported by Putin's forces since 24 February 2022.

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Ukraine (2019), 96 mins.

Director: Nariman Aliev

Starring: Akhtem Seitablayev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barihashvili, Anatoliy Marempolskiy, Viktor Zhdanov, Veronika Lukianenko, Akmal Gurezov, Larysa Yatzenko

Grieving over the death of his son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar man, Mustafa, resolves to bring the boy’s body back to his ancestral homeland: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son Alim embark on a journey across Ukraine that will change their relationship forever. This award-winning debut from Nariman Aliev, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, was Ukraine’s selection for competition in the 2020 Oscars.

Introduced by Dr Rory Finnin, University of Cambridge

The suggested donation for admission is £10 (£5 for students). Please be as generous as you can. All proceeds will go to WithUkraine.org, an online global platform vetted by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies and built by the Embassy of Ukraine in the United Kingdom to provide urgent humanitarian relief to families on the ground in Ukraine.

Organised by Cambridge Film Projects and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies (www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org).